There may be less than 100 crop rotations left on the planet unless we step up and change our destiny. Executive Director of the Regenerative Organic Alliance, Elizabeth Whitlow, joins Neka on the UR Love Podcast to shed light on our daily habits and how they affect the health and wellbeing of our planet and its inhabitants. Change is always possible. With studies stated from the Rockefeller Foundation, it’s a race to heal our planet with clean food.
Elizabeth Whitlow is the Executive Director of the Regenerative Organic Alliance (ROA), a nonprofit organization that oversees the certification standard, promotes and supports the Regenerative Organic Certified® program. Combining the best practices from USDA Organic, Fair Trade and high-bar animal welfare standards, Regenerative Organic Certified® is a revolutionary new certification for food, fiber and personal care products. It goes beyond current certification criteria and meets the highest standards in the world for soil health, animal welfare, and farmworker and social fairness. Elizabeth boasts an impressive 25+ year career in the field of organic agriculture. Prior to joining the Regenerative Organic Alliance (ROA), Elizabeth worked across a broad spectrum of elevated certifications, both in farming and ranching.
Elizabeth’s work as the leader of ROA has been featured in a variety of national publications. Wine Enthusiast Magazine featured her on its Future 40 list in 2022. She has delivered keynote speeches at numerous conferences on the importance of regenerative organic farming as an aspirational objective for global agriculture practices and as a necessity to mitigate climate change and social equity in the agricultural sector. Her 2020 TEDxTysons Talk, has been viewed globally.
